Minor Changes to Terran

General Discussion
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Liberator Anti-Air Rework

  • Attack Range: 7 (increases to 9 with Advanced Ballistics)

Banshee Unit Rework: Light Classification

  • Unit Attribute Change: Add Light (Removes Armored attribute)
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Interesting ideas.

Liberators are in a weird place regarding AA. When massed they have the capability to shut down almost all opposing air compositions if those compositions don’t have an upgrade lead or good spellcaster play to support them. In low numbers, Liberators are hot garbage against other air units.

I think there is room for adjusting Liberator AA but I’m not sure range is the answer. This makes mass Liberator shut down opposing air armies even harder while likely providing them little help in low numbers.

I’d be more keen to up their single-target damage (keeping their splash damage the same as it is now), and decrease their rate-of-fire a bit. This allows them to use focus-fire more effectively at lower numbers, while decreasing their splash DPS when massed.

EDIT: My response for this part assumed the OP’s premise is correct, which is not true since Banshees are already Light as pointed out by Terranic.

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Honestly I think the answer is quite simple. Give it a bonus to light (so it actually can deal with phoenix/muta reasonably well in low-ish numbers), and give tiered splash damage to it, so that the center is full damage and the outer radius is partial damage (maybe 50%?)

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Yeah, that might work well.

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Banshees are already a light unit.

Liberators definitely do not need more AA range. I’m not sure you can even justify an anti-air boost considering that Liberators can be oppressive versus ground, making air units the counter in some situations.

That said, changing liberators to have multiple splash radii and better single-target damage (as Miro suggested) would probably be OK.

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Ah shoot, shows how recently I’ve looked at the Banshee’s armor type lol (possibly never). I assumed the OP was coming from a correct premise.

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Maru was here?? WHERE? :wink:

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Lol, sorry! That was a funny mistype.

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Now you’re just doing it on purpose haha :wink:

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